Origins was such a boring game. Hackneyed, utterly predictible plot, graphics that looked like the previous generation. There wasn’t really much there to like, and then the next games were worse.
How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it’s just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I’m not saying it’s dead but wasn’t racing games one of the primary genres?...
I think there’s not a lot of room for competition, it’s either Gran Turismo on PS5, Forza on Xbox or… um… Mario Kart? On Switch?
You could say the same thing about Football games. There’s Madden and NCAA and that’s pretty much it.
The era of having niche games like Metropolis Street Racer, Project Gotham, Speed Devils, or, heck, go back to the OG Playstation with Wipeout, Jet Moto, Destruction Derby… that’s long over.
Which is a shame because I played the HELL out of MSR/PGR.
I need some suggestions on what to play. Single Player games only. Most of the games make me feel lonely and alone. In most of the games, the protagonist has to deal with the problems on their own, like Control, Crysis, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War (I liked the original 6 more than the new ones, even though the new ones had...
I want to play Bloodborne because quite frankly it looks really cool. I’m told the game is going to be way too difficult for me. I usually play games on standard or easy difficulty. Should I even bother? Is this game even going to be playable to a noob like me?
Battlefield 2042 is $60 right now. One of my friends on Steam plays Battlefield 2042 and I thought hey, that would be pretty cool to play with him. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much because that game came out a long time ago and was extremely poorly received and like, I’m sure it would be really easy to buy that game or...
Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC’s released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the...
In your opinion, what games released in the 2020s decade (the current one) will be forgotten (i.e. no longer talked about, or known) 20 years from now?
Here are the Game of the Year winners on the five major video game awards since 2014:
2014: Dragon Age: Inquisition (TGA and DICE), Dark Souls II (GJA), Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor (GDCA), Destiny (BAFTA)
2015: The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt (TGA, GJA and GDCA), Fallout 4 (DICE and BAFTA)
2016: Overwatch (TGA, DICE and GDCA), Dark Souls III (GJA), Uncharted 4: A Thief's End (BAFTA)
2017: The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), What Remains of Edith Finch (BAFTA)
2018: God of War (TGA, DICE, BAFTA and GDCA), Fortnite (GJA)
2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (TGA), Resident Evil 4 (GJA), Untitled Goose Game (DICE and GDCA), Outer Wilds (BAFTA)
2020: The Last of Us Part II (TGA and GJA), Hades (DICE, BAFTA and GDCA)
2021: It Takes Two (TGA and DICE), Inscryption (GDCA), Resident Evil Village (GJA), Returnal (BAFTA)
2022: Elden Ring (TGA, GJA, DICE and GDCA), Vampire Survivors (BAFTA)
2023: Baldur's Gate 3 (TGA, DICE, BAFTA, GJA and GDCA)
Legend: TGA - The Game Awards, GJA - Golden Joystick Awards, BAFTA - British Academy of Film and Television Awards, DICE - DICE Awards, GDCA - Game Developers Choice Awards.
This list doesn't include awards before 2014, because The Game Awards launched that year.
Never understood the appeal of Dragon Age: Inquisition. Bad, cliched writing, terrible previous gen graphics. Plus all the Bioware fans going “Hey, give them a break, it was made by the ‘B’ team.”
Sim, arcade, simcade, anything. I’m kinda disconnected from the genre and want to know what is considered the GOATs of racing games to try them out....
Back in the day, Asscreed 1-4 and Far Cry 2-3, there were constant improvements and innovations in level design, mechanics, graphics, cool shit to do basically....
Ubi actually has 2 kinds of open world games… Assassin’s Creed Style and Far Cry Style. I prefer the former, I was disappointed to see the Avatar game was the latter
It’s not quite the same thing… Mid generation refreshes are, generally, due to changes in technology outside of gaming.
Look at the first mid-gen refresh… The Sega CD and NEC Turbo CD for TurboGrafx (released as a separate machine called the Turbo Duo).
CD technology changed gaming, but the console makers at the time weren’t ready yet for a new generation.
Sega and NEC refreshed the current gen with CD technology, Nintendo explored it with Sony, and abandoned it (as Nintendo is generally always a generation behind), which led directly to the Playstation a few years later.
We saw it again in the Xbox 360/PS3 era. Those machines launched in 2005/2006. A global financial crisis took all the air out of the room and made financing R&D for a next generation impossible just when it needed to start ramping up in 2008/2009.
So what Microsoft and Sony did was pivot to try to enter the casual market that the Wii dominated by releasing Kinect and Move respectively in 2010, when a new console SHOULD have launched but did not.
The next true generation was still 3 years away at that point, but Kinect and Move let them limp along until they got there.
The same thing happened with the Xbox One and PS4, television technology greatly advanced after they launched in 2013 and it became apparent that all these 4K television owners were looking for 4K content.
Nobody was prepared to launch a new console, so we got the Xbox One S without 4K gaming, but with a 4K Blu Ray drive, the PS4 Pro, which had no 4K drive, but kinda, sorta on a good day, could almost do 4K gaming, and the Xbox One X which ran 4K games, 4K movies, and massively upgraded older non-4K games.
For the PS5 Pro? There is nothing demanding the refresh. Sony says they’re doing it because players want better frame rates, but those 3/4 of players choosing performance mode are already showing they don’t care about fidelity.
Moreover, the latest thinking is that for GTA6, the promise of increased frame rate STILL won’t be a reality.
Rumors have it this event will announce the PS5 Pro. I know the PS5 has been out for years now but does anyone feel like a pro version might be unnecessary? Current gen games already look great and run fine*...
With the release of “The Final Shape,” the main storyline has concluded, and it seems like the developers are now just churning out random content and seasonal passes without a clear direction for the game’s future. I’m genuinely curious about what motivates players to stick around. Are there aspects of the game that...
Kids man… I remember back in the day being asked to review a gaming site a young’un was trying to get off the ground and I had to correct them that Mario was NOT created by Atari and man, they were ADAMANT.
Destiny 2 has the bones of a decent game in there somewhere, it’s just that the devs keep fucking it up.
If it were me, I’d fix it like this:
Split it into 2 games. Story based PvE with paid content, F2P PvP with all the cosmetics, paid currency bullshit.
Allow characters to transfer back and forth at will, but each can be played without the other. Balance weapons independently in both games, so changing a gun for PvE doesn’t fuck up PvP and vice versa.
Restore all the story content removed from PvE. Allow each story mission to be picked from the map like D1 STILL does, and have level markers on them so people can experience the story in logical order.
“Just yesterday, it was alleged that Bungie’s CEO Pete Parsons had purchased 24 cars cumulatively valued at $2.5m just before the layoffs. Parson’s Twitter account went private yesterday, too.”
Freelance Video Game Journalists Are Propping Up The Industry, And Many Are Being Paid Dogshit In Return (aftermath.site) angielski
Nintendo sues streamer for playing pre-release, emulated Switch games (overkill.wtf) angielski
Warner Bros. Admits MultiVersus Underperformed, Contributing to Another $100 Million Hit to Revenue in Its Games Business (www.ign.com) angielski
Morrigan isn't just my favourite Dragon Age character, she's the greatest fantasy RPG companion of all time (www.pcgamer.com) angielski
Whatever happened to racing games angielski
How come there are so few racing games coming out lately? Feels like it’s just codemasters doing their thing, some struggling indie games and a truckload of shovelware. I’m not saying it’s dead but wasn’t racing games one of the primary genres?...
Why video games exist after all? (fedia.io) angielski
Since they don't have any useful value other than providing entertainment to the user, why they exist?
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Will the Nintendo Switch become the best-selling console ever? (fedia.io) angielski
It's just behind the PS2 and Nintendo DS right now with 143 million units sold.
Suggestions? Games that won't make me feel alone? angielski
I need some suggestions on what to play. Single Player games only. Most of the games make me feel lonely and alone. In most of the games, the protagonist has to deal with the problems on their own, like Control, Crysis, Ghost of Tsushima, God of War (I liked the original 6 more than the new ones, even though the new ones had...
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Are souls games really as hard as everyone says?
I want to play Bloodborne because quite frankly it looks really cool. I’m told the game is going to be way too difficult for me. I usually play games on standard or easy difficulty. Should I even bother? Is this game even going to be playable to a noob like me?
Nintendo launches New alarm Clock named “Alarmo” (www.nintendo.com)
Why does the PC gaming industry still use such deceptive pricing? angielski
Battlefield 2042 is $60 right now. One of my friends on Steam plays Battlefield 2042 and I thought hey, that would be pretty cool to play with him. I’m sure it wouldn’t be that much because that game came out a long time ago and was extremely poorly received and like, I’m sure it would be really easy to buy that game or...
Starfield's first DLC is one of the worst Bethesda DLCs of all time angielski
Starfield steam page for the DLC currently shows eight user review score of 41%, making this one of the worst Bethesda DLC’s released of all time. This is so horribly, shockingly bad for Bethesda, because it shows as a gaming company, they are no longer capable of delivering a really good gaming experience as they had in the...
[Tom Warren] The PS5 Pro still hasn’t sold out in the US or UK. Looks like the $700 price point will mean this console will be readily available this holiday (lemmy.world) angielski
"The father of PlayStation" says everyone at Sony thought the PS1 would fail when it was first pitched (www.gamesradar.com) angielski
What letter has the best games? angielski
All your games now have to start with the same letter, which one are you going with?
Sony doubles the price of Horizon Zero Dawn just days after remaster reveal (questalerts.com) angielski
Nintendo filed a lawsuit against Pocketpair, Inc. (www.nintendo.co.jp) angielski
What are your favorite racing games? (lemmy.world) angielski
Sim, arcade, simcade, anything. I’m kinda disconnected from the genre and want to know what is considered the GOATs of racing games to try them out....
People seem to really dislike Destiny 2. Why haven't they ended it yet? (lemmy.world) angielski
Where are the improvements in AAA games? angielski
Back in the day, Asscreed 1-4 and Far Cry 2-3, there were constant improvements and innovations in level design, mechanics, graphics, cool shit to do basically....
Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling (www.bloomberg.com) angielski
Game consoles are now smartphones, and that's okay (www.spacebar.news) angielski
Tune in tomorrow for a PlayStation 5 Technical Presentation hosted by Mark Cerny (blog.playstation.com) angielski
Rumors have it this event will announce the PS5 Pro. I know the PS5 has been out for years now but does anyone feel like a pro version might be unnecessary? Current gen games already look great and run fine*...
Why Do People Still Play Destiny 2? angielski
With the release of “The Final Shape,” the main storyline has concluded, and it seems like the developers are now just churning out random content and seasonal passes without a clear direction for the game’s future. I’m genuinely curious about what motivates players to stick around. Are there aspects of the game that...
Celebrating 30 years of PlayStation: My First GT, digital soundtracks, “Shapes of Play” collection – and there’s more to come (blog.playstation.com) angielski
Who remembers playing N64 while watching Nixon resign? (lemmy.world) angielski
Concord is shutting down on September 6. (blog.playstation.com)
Star Wars Outlaws doesn't let you free aim and fire from your speeder because Massive didn't want you to "feel as if you can ride in and assault people" (www.gamesradar.com)
Destiny had the same thing… If you could shoot from the Sparrow there’d be no reason to do anything else.
Sony Live Service Shooter Concord Debuts to a Tragic 697 Concurrent Players on Steam - IGN (www.ign.com)
Bungie lays off another 220 staff, acknowledging it was "overly ambitious" (www.gamesindustry.biz)
155 people also move to SIE; another 75 again are moved to work “with PlayStation Studios”
Paradox Lays Off Entire Studio Before Its Game Was Even Released (aftermath.site) angielski
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Nintendo, Xbox, And PlayStation Have All Now Abandoned Twitter/X Integration (archive.is) angielski
So, really, a win for everybody.
Hello, PC gaming here: Are the consoles OK? (www.pcgamer.com) angielski